The Self-Managed Company Manual

The following is the preliminary Table of Contents for the Strategic Planning Manual. The final version may be somewhat different.

1 The Case for Transforming Business
1.1 A Desirable Reality for Businesses
1.2 The Current Reality of Traditional Management
1.3 Closing the Gap
1.4 How We Got Here: Some Management History
1.5 Our Emerging Understanding of the Universe
1.6 The Challenges for Business Leaders
1.7 Two Robust Models on Which We Can Build
1.7.1 The Marketplace
1.7.2 The Natural World
2 The Eight Pillars of Self-Management
2.1 The Customer/Vendor Relationship
2.2 Open Information
2.3 Education, Training & Orientation
2.4 Profit Sharing
2.5 Internal Customer Feedback
2.6 Teams Hire/Fire Their Own
2.7 Setting Compensation
2.8 Employee Equity
3 Implementation Issues
3.1 Initial Configuration of the Leadership Team
3.2 The Transformation of the CEOs Role
3.3 Learning to Trust the Process
3.4 Getting Help
4 Year One
4.1 Leadership Team Process and Meeting Schedule
4.2 Addressing Strategic Priorities
4.3 Building Bench Strength to Create Bandwidth
4.4 Education & Training
4.5 Developing Leadership Skills
4.6 Establishing the Monthly Meeting Rhythm
4.7 Peer Review
5 Year Two
5.1 Artifact Design and Implementation
5.2 Emerging Team Effectiveness
6 Year Three
6.1 Developing Accountability
6.2 CEO: Coach/Facilitator
6.3 Hiring and Firing
6.4 Spawning new SBUs
6.5 Pushing The Leadership Team Concept Down into the Organization
6.6 Redeployment of CEO's Bandwidth
7 The Future
7.1 Exploring the Limits
7.1.1 Compensation
7.1.2 Hiring/Firing
7.2 Education, Training & Orientation
7.3 Leadership Team Vision Ownership
7.4 Scaling Up
7.5 The Holding Company Model
8 Support
8.1 The CEO Support Network
8.2 Consulting
9 Sharing
9.1 SelfManagementCommunity.com
9.2 Spreading the Word

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